Political Science & Legal Studies: The Executive Branch
Welcome to this guide on Political Science & Legal Studies. Click on the tabs to access the various types of information needed to conduct your research.
This site from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia gives biographical information about each of the presidents, a speech archive, and classroom resources.
This web site from PBS provides documentaries on nine of the 20th-Century presidents. Also included are biographies of all of the presidents, articles, interviews, photographs, and educational resources
A study of the American presidency established in 1999 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The site offers 104,792 documents related to the study of the presidency.
Biographies of the presidents. Includes "background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents."
The Executive Branch-Films Media Group
To access this film from off-campus, log in with your Manhattanville log in information (the same as Brightspace and Office 365)
This Instructor’s Guide provides information to help you get the most out of The Executive Branch, part of the six-part series U.S. Government: How It Works. he contents of the guide will allow you to prepare your students before using the program and to present follow-up activities to reinforce the program’s key learning points.
Through 2016, there have been 58 presidential elections. This page links to the results of those historical elections, including a larger map, results and synopsis of the race. An interactive version of each map is also available, letting you change history.
The beginnings of the blue-red regional alignment in today’s American politics can be traced to 1964, when Republicans broke through in the South after almost 100 years of Democratic domination.
